Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324209",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-01T08:00:51",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-01T12:04:07",
    "closed": "2026-07-06T16:20:31",
    "modified": "2026-07-06T16:20:31",
    "date_unknown": true,
    "site_name": "SSO - Unpermitted - Fairfax Co - Blue Plains WWTP (DC)",
    "address": "6520 Georgetown Pike",
    "city": "McLean",
    "zip": "22101",
    "county_city": "Fairfax County",
    "region": "Northern",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 1",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "N",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received an online pollution report for an unpermitted SSO (sanitary sewer overflow) in Fairfax Co on piping that terminates at Blue Plains WWTP (DC). Approximately 1050 of sewage released due to a bypass pump failure. Sewage entered state surface waters. Fairfax Co responded and stopped the overflow. Report received an requirements met. No additional DEQ action necessary.",
    "location_comment": "Langley School pump station, Grid #022-3, emergency bypass connection.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 1,
      "component": "Pump Station Failure",
      "component_id": 4,
      "volume_gal": 1050,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Pump Station"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": null,
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-07-01T12:04:09",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-01T12:09:46",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-01T12:09:46",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00",
      "type": "Report Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T16:20:16",
      "type": "Program Participant Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T16:20:32",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-01T12:04:09",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": null,
  "_time_basis": "PReP API times are local wall-clock times with no zone, read as America/New_York. The export table stores local time + 5 h all year (decoded by subtracting 5 h); the EDMA point layer stores local time labelled as UTC (decoded by reading the UTC clock as local).",
  "water_placement": {
    "text": null,
    "towns": [
      "McLean",
      "Fairfax County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.950211,
    "lon": -77.163906,
    "layer": "DEQ EDMA layer 175 (PReP Reports, Daily)",
    "reference_point": "PG",
    "note": "DEQ's geocode of the report's site address (REFERENCE_POINT 'PG'), not an outfall point",
    "edma_incident": "2026-07-01T08:00:51-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-01T12:04:07-04:00"
  },
  "attribution": "DEQ is the data source. DEQ does not certify that this data represents a complete record. This data is provided to the citizens of the Commonwealth free of charge and for informational purposes only.",
  "api_url": "https://portal.deq.virginia.gov/prep/api/prepReports/324209?expand=prepStatusCode,prepUnitTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepComponentTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageCauses.prepCauseCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageImpacts.prepImpactTypeCode,prepReportReleaseSubtypes.prepReleaseSubtypeCode,prepReportPermitViews,prepOriginalReport,prepReportEvents.prepEventTypeCode,prepFipsCode.fipsRegion"
}

Source: Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP), Northern Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 324209, reported Jul 1, 2026, 12:04 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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